My health recovery is incredibly fast.

...

Several hours later, the sky began to lighten.

Shazor's blood servants arrived in Rosac.

It found the Warriors' Guild in the city, and after a brief search, it slipped into a third-floor window.

Vans's mercenary rank was not high, so his file was not very secretive. His file, along with those of many other mercenaries of the same rank, was kept in the Warriors' Guild's main archives.

The archives are sorted by the date they were created.

Audrey once mentioned that Vans had been in the business longer than the clown siblings, the strongman, and the snake charmer, and was quite well-known in the northern city of Rosac.

Therefore, the time when Farns's file was compiled should be around 20 years ago.

Xia Zuo found the corresponding shelf, manipulated the Blood Element servant to crawl into the file bag, and checked the information in the bag one by one.

At noon, Xia Zuo found what he was looking for.

..

【Name】Vaners

[Place of birth] Tarozzk village, Rosac Province

[Year of Birth] He states it was 175th year of the Starry Night Calendar.

Parents: Unknown

[Resume]

(Some irrelevant content omitted)

In the year 199 of the Starry Night Calendar, Vans joined a bandit group in southern Rosac province and participated in the raid on the village of Silva. In the same year, Vans was captured alive by the garrison of Piek fortress and executed.

..

Is Vans dead?

Xia Zuo frowned, recalling what had happened around the fortress after the circus left Piek Fortress.

In his memory, the garrison of Piek Fortress, with the help of the garrisoned mages, destroyed several underground alchemy chambers and several bandit strongholds, and captured a large number of bandits.

The city's garrison dragged the bandits to the execution ground in the city center, and wave after wave of rebels were sent to the gallows and guillotine.

According to the records, Vans was among those executed.

So... the carriage that picked up Vans from the hotel was controlled by bandits?

Isn't this a bit too far-fetched?

Imagine, when bandits were rampant, the fortress of Piek was on high alert, and the guards at the city gates carefully checked every carriage that came in or out.

A band of bandits drove their wagons blatantly into the city fortress, picked up members of the city's most popular circus, and easily passed the city gate guards' second inspection without being recognized by them…

Is this possible?

Yes, it exists, but the probability is relatively low.

Xia Zuo rubbed his head, feeling like there was a tangled ball of yarn in front of him that was getting more and more complicated. Tracking down Van Ers's whereabouts involved far more factors than he had imagined.

Perhaps he was wrong from the start, and Vans was not the problem.

His choice to focus on "Vitality" was indeed a matter of chance.

But expecting Xia Zuo to give up the investigation is clearly unrealistic…

As someone who has received a modern education, he clearly understands the principle that "there is inevitability behind the accidental."

Xia Zuo will only accept a result when the logic of the investigation findings is self-consistent and forms a perfect closed loop.

Xia Zuo thought for a moment and decided to change his investigation method.

Traditional investigation methods rely too heavily on objective factors such as paper documents, eyewitness testimonies, and physical evidence.

Since magic exists in this world, it would be more convenient to use magic to investigate things.

Is there any kind of magic that can trace back to the source?

Xia Zuo thought for a few seconds and decided that common detection spells would definitely not work.

However, if we could recreate the history of a local area, we might be able to see the causes and consequences of the Farnsworth incident.

What kind of magic can recreate history?

A figure popped into Xia Zuo's mind—Crestor.

This veteran pureblood mage possesses powerful time-manipulation magic. Asking her about time magic might be beneficial.

Shazo dismissed the Blood Element servants in Rosac, then picked up the secret communication ring and sent a secret message to Cresto.

Due to the great distance and the obstruction of the extreme storm, it is estimated that this secret message will take seven or eight days to reach Crestor.

Xia Zuo then calmed down and focused on testing the tower.

Chapter 12: A Shock That Lasted a Whole Year

Two weeks after arriving at Starry Night Academy.

Flight test platform.

Xia Zuo is renovating his tower.

After several rounds of testing, his tower operated normally and passed all the performance evaluations.

The experience rewards from this series of tasks are amazing!

Each round of testing is divided into several projects, and each project contains various sub-projects.

For each sub-project completed, the cheat code will give you an experience reward.

In a small project testing the maximum duration of stable levitation, Xia Zuo levitated in mid-air for 3 days, receiving nearly 9000 experience points from his cheat system, demonstrating extremely high experience gain efficiency.

The same applies to other smaller projects.

After several rounds of testing, Xia Zuo advanced three levels.

..

[Level] Lv.38→Lv.41

[Experience] 18000/34000

[Strength] 40

[Agile] 40

[Endurance] 40

[Vitality] 480

[Perception] 40

[Willpower] 40

[Mental State] 70

【Charm】40

[Free Attribute Points] 40

...

The joyful time of rapid leveling up is always short-lived.

After all the test flights were completed, Xia Zuo tried to repeat the test, but the cheat system refused to acknowledge it and only gave him 5% of the original experience reward.

Since the attempt to steal a chicken failed, let's move on to the next step.

Xia Zuo sat in the rest area next to the test flight platform, flipping through the list of tower auxiliary modules in his hand.

After slaying the Frost Dragon, the mage legions of the Desolate Hammer Kingdom used a traction beam to slow the dragon's descent.

This traction beam comes from a traction beam device specifically designed for towers. The principle is to attach a spell target to the target and indirectly control the target by manipulating the spell target, thereby achieving the purpose of traction.

There are many other alchemical devices with auxiliary functions like this.

Examples include a long-range entanglement beam device to slow down targets, an energy plunderer to steal spell energy, a long-range energy transfer device to deliver energy to other towers, and a short-range warp thruster to quickly relocate towers.

There is even a central control device that can simultaneously control a large number of combat puppets to fight together. The core component is the crystal array controlled by the Crystal Remnants.

This shows that the Temple has invested a lot of manpower and resources in the tower, which has the dual attributes of a building and a spacecraft, and has developed many tower functional modules for large-scale operations at the boundary of space.

It can be said that as long as a few hundred Eternal Mages can be gathered for the Temple, a full-scale army of towers at the edge of the starry sky can be organized immediately to launch a full-scale counterattack.

As Xia Zuo browsed through the dazzling list of function modules, he marveled at the profound heritage of the temple.

At this moment, even if someone told him that there was a space tower in the temple capable of interstellar travel, he would not have the slightest doubt.

The list is incredibly detailed.

It's hard to imagine how a temple civilization that has never left its planet could have developed such a unique product of the cosmic era.

Xia Zuo selected the desired add-on modules, drafted an order form, and handed it to Beatrice, who would then forward it to the outer sanctuary. Once the teleportation hall at the Starry Night City ruins was completed, the add-on modules he ordered would arrive.

They will be sent over together, along with a metal box sent by Christo.

When Shazo asked about time-space magic, Christo gave him part of the answer.

The other party stated explicitly that she would give Xia Zuo a tool to comprehend the laws of spacetime. If Xia Zuo could learn the basics on his own, it wouldn't matter whether someone taught him spacetime magic or not, because those who understand the laws of spacetime naturally understand everything and can master all spacetime magic without being taught. Teaching those who don't understand is useless.

Yes... that's what Christo said.

While patiently waiting for the "delivery," Xia Zuo meditated and studied at the university.

Whenever he had free time, he would borrow the advanced alchemy table from Kulov and refine batches of poison, leaving the junior students in class stunned. They all exclaimed that Senior Xia Zuo was a true poison-making maniac, no wonder he was so young and was highly valued by Xingye Academy.

While Xia Zuo was grinding for experience, the construction of the energy sub-plane and the deployment of monsters at Xingye Academy were progressing smoothly.

The proposal for the sub-plane passage was submitted to the outer sanctum by Beatrice, and after several rounds of discussion, the proposal was approved.

A large batch of supplies will be delivered over the next eight months.

During this period, Beatrice prepared manpower and supplies while also revealing some information to ordinary people outside the mansion in a limited way to prepare them psychologically and minimize the psychological impact of these two events.